The entire Star Trek multiverse–including the Prime, Kelvin and Mirror universes, is about to be destroyed. Recent issues of IDW’s Star Trek comic have followed Captain Sisko and his crew as they navigate the multiverse, which is under threat from the evil android Lore. In a first look at Star Trek #28, Lore’s nefarious plans for the multiverse come to fruition, as it falls before him.
IDW shared their January solicitations recently, including Star Trek #28, which will be written by Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly and drawn by Tess Fowler. The solicitation for the issue reads as follows:
Lore has destroyed the multiverse, and its fate now lies in Benjamin Sisko’s hands. But after the U.S.S. Theseus slingshots into the Celestial Temple, Sisko finds himself without his crew… or any technology… on a Bronze-age Bajor. The ancient Bajorans don’t know what to make of him: Is he a terrifying threat or the prophet they’ve been waiting for? If Sisko is to save life itself from the Orb of Destruction, he must first save himself…
Star Trek #28 is part four of the “When the Walls Fell” storyline, which is taking fans on a trip through the Trek multiverse. The Theseus, Sisko’s ship, and the only survivors of Lore’s attack, have thus far traveled through Fluidic Space, and at the conclusion of Star Trek #25, found themselves in the Kelvin Universe.
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Multiverses are not a new concept in comic books, tracing their roots back to DC Comics of the early 1960s, and Star Trek, which premiered in 1966, leaned into the idea early on as well. In the second season episode “Mirror, Mirror,” Kirk and company find themselves in the Mirror Universe, populated by evil variants of themselves. In the shows and media that followed, there have been numerous incursions to and fro the Mirror Universe, establishing a precedent for multiversal travel. Philippa Georgiou, the head of Section 31, was the former head of the Mirror Universe’s Terran Empire.
Now, just as the mainstream audiences are catching up to the notion of multiverses, Star Trek is leaning further into the idea. In 2009, JJ Abrams introduced fans to the Kelvin Universe in his Star Trek reboot film. The Kelvin Universe boasted a younger crew and more advanced-looking technology. Other Star Trek episodes, from across the franchise, have involved forms of travel across the multiverse. In the episode “Parallels,” airing in Star Trek: The Next Generation’s seventh season, Worf trips through a number of different realities, some of them quite grim. Star Trek’s multiverse is large and full of potential.
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And Lore seeks to annihilate this potential and remake it in his image. In Star Trek #25, Lore, using the Bajoran Orb of Destruction, destroys the Prime Universe. The solicitation for Star Trek #28 reveals that Lore did not stop there, and the Mirror and Kelvin Universes are now gone as well. As this crisis rages in the Star Trek universe, Sisko and the crew of the Theseus must find a way to not only stop Lore but somehow restore the multiverse that he destroyed. This story will play out in the pages of next year’s The Lore War.
While fans wait patiently for The Lore War to start, they can travel through the Star Trek multiverse one last time before its imminent destruction. “When the Walls Fell” has so far been a frantic, nervy ride through the multiverse. Sisko and his crew are racing against time to stop Lore and save what is left. The Prime, Mirror and Kelvin Universes are but a fraction of the Star Trek multiverse, and they, and the rest, are under siege from a dark force, one bent on destruction and annihilation.